{{Short description|British philatelist (1876–1930)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox medical person | honorific_prefix = | name = Ernest William Floyd | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --> | birth_date = 1876 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1930|1876}} | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | education = | occupation = Physician | years_active = | known_for = | relations = | website = | profession = Doctor | field = | work_institutions = | specialism = | research_field = | notable_works = | prizes = | child = | module2 = | signature = }}

Dr. '''Ernest William Floyd''' (1876<ref name=roll>''[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011]'', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.]</ref> – 15 January 1930<ref name=abps/>) was a British physician and well known stamp collector as well as philatelist, who is known for signing the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1927.<ref name=roll/>

==Philately== Floyd was a specialist in the line-engraved stamps of Great Britain, particularly the Penny Black, and also collected British Levant, Confederate States, Bergedorf, Heligoland, Modena, and Barbados.<ref name=abps>[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#F Who Was Who in British Philately], Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Archived here.]</ref> His collection of Penny Blacks was sold to Charles Nissen in anticipation of his service as a physician during World War One but it is unclear if he served. He won a number of medals in international stamp competitions. It was said of Floyd that he had an extremely quick eye in detecting any deviation from type and this was reflected in the important contribution he made to the effort to plate the Penny Black. He was a stalwart of the Manchester Philatelic Society and a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1916.

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